On 7/11/05, Patrick McCabe <patrickm at citilink.com> wrote: > After years of using mostly Mandrake, I have finally decided to make the > jump to Debian. I am actually using Ubuntu (Kubuntu) at the moment - I > thought it would make for an easier transition. > > I am trying to install packages and some of them fail with MD5 errors, > example: > > Failed to fetch > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pango1.0/libpango1.0-0_1.8.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb > MD5Sum mismatch > > I was trying to download synaptic. What should I do at this point? Is > there a way around this problem? try doing an update (apt-get update) and try getting it again > > General questions: > -How can I see what files a package contains? dpkg -L package > -How do I determine what package I need for a particular program? apt-cache search keyword apt-cache show packagename >I want to get ncftpget but I don't know the package it comes in. apt-cache search ncftp or apt-cache search ncftpget > Thanks. I know I have a lot of reading to do... > > > Patrick McCabe -Ryan